Cop's Actions In 2nd Drug Case Being Probed

March 11, 1994

One of three Chicago police tactical officers under investigation for allegedly planting cocaine on a South Side man is also being investigated for allegations that he lied to obtain a search warrant, authorities said.

Authorities said the officer, who works in the Englewood District, claimed to have observed drug transactions and purchased drugs from an alleged dealer, Larvette Carr, before the officer obtained a search warrant to enter her apartment in January 1991.

But Cook County Circuit Judge John Morrissey, in an October 1993 hearing, said the officer's testimony "lacked truthfulness," and that the defense proved that the information in the search warrant was false. Morrissey quashed the warrant, forcing prosecutors to drop charges that Carr had possessed cocaine, her attorney, Stephen Komie said.

Morrissey did convict Carr of the drug sale and sentenced her to probation.

Last month, prosecutors dropped a cocaine possession case against a South Side man after a police sergeant testified that reports the officer had filed were false.